Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was more than just another mathematician. Watercolor portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace by ...

Ada Lovelace was the world's first computer programmer, writing algorithms for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine: a 19th century calculator that was far ahead of its time. A rare, first-edition copy ...

Women can not only code, but the first coder was a woman. Born 197 years ago today, Ada Lovelace is considered the first person to write a computer program and also the first to realize that a ...

The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate and encourage the accomplishments of women in science, technology, and engineering. But who was Ada Lovelace? She wrote the first ...

Nineteenth-century genius Ada Lovelace has never glimpsed the Analytical Engine, the proto-computer she is helping to conceive: The trailblazing gizmo hasn’t been built. But she sees it in her ...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for girls ...